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biden's home and former washington office. ah, hello i mariam no mozy in london, you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. you are assigned to say last year was the 5th war, missed on record with the last 9 years, the 9 hottest since pre industrial times. now ukraine says its troops are holding out in solid are despite the ultra nationalist wagner group claiming to have taken the east in town and that shoreline, cuz former president, my triple a series sina is fine for failing to stop the 2019 easter sunday bombings . ah, hello and welcome to the program. we begin in the united states,

where attorney general merritt garland is announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate president job biden's handling of sensitive government documents. earlier on thursday, biden confirmed a 2nd set of classified documents had been found this time in the garbage of his private home. in delaware, the documents are believed to be linked to biden's time as the vice president and reported to include intelligence memos, and briefing materials linked to ukraine. iran and the u. k. the 1st batch of documents was uncovered at biden's former office at a washington think tank 2 months ago, but was only made public on monday or in november gahlan named a special council to oversee for president donald trump's handling of classified files after around a 100 documents were found at his mar lago estate. people know i take crush wide documents of classroom material seriously. i also said were cooperating fully incomplete with the justice department's review. as part of that process,

my lawyers reviewed other places, word documents and my i'm of, from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night . they discovered a small number of documents of classified markings and storage areas in file cabinets in my home, in my, in my, my, my personal library. meanwhile, republicans are accusing president biden of hypocrisy. they knew this has happened to president biden before the election, but they kept the secret from the american public. he goes on 60 minutes, criticizes president, trump even knowing what he has done and he wasn't president at the time. now we find another location that it's at, but he refused to answer his press. secretary won't answer the questions we, you watched them leak photos is sitting out files, the president, trump, where's the photos? a president biden's documents. where are those photos that he knowingly knew? this happened going into a lecture going into interviews. this is what makes america not trust their

government as cam winestaff my white house correspondent, kimberly how get. so this is now the 2nd, a special council appointed by merit don. and since he took over at the justice department, tell us more about what rub at her has been tasked with a rubber her is a former trump harry us attorney, and he has been tasked into looking wet into whether or not the current u. s. president joe biden potentially broke the law in the fact that he had classified materials stored eh, from his time is vice president in the obama administration stored, not just at his private residence in wilmington, delaware, but also in washington. d. c at the pen biden center. now, the reason for this is because of the concern is, is that there is a lack of public trust in not only this case. but of course,

the fact that there is also a special council appointed. in the case of former president donald trump and his storage of classified materials at his home in morrow lago, the public trust is at an all time low. with regard to the fact that there is storage of intelligence documents that are being with helden from the national archives. and so, and this is something that is being attempted by attorney general merit garland to try and bring back the confidence of the american public. here's what he had to say about his attempt to try restore that public confidence by appointing robert her earlier today, i saw i signed an order appointing robert her a special counsel for the matter i have just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violate the law in connection with this matter. special counsel will not be subject to the day to day supervision of any

official department, but he must comply with the regulations procedures and policies of the department. and of course, we're still learning about to the, if it more about the background of these documents. but what is known about the contents of these papers, why they are so important. well, what we know is that president biden says he doesn't know what is in these documents. he says that he takes them very seriously. the white house says that for its part, they believe in important distinction is, is that when they discovered these documents, they turned them over to the national archives immediately. and they say that that is very important for the public to note it, because this contrasts with the former president, donald trump and his handling of classified documents in noting that when it comes to the case of the former president, it took

a subpoena to retrieve those documents ad for them to be retrieved by the national archives. in other words, there had to be a legal process in order to get those documents back into the public domain. and so this is an important nuance. the white house believes one that they are continuing to underscore, but at the same time, there doesn't seem to be a big distinction being made by the public. in fact, this is a growing controversy that the white houses attempting to tap down. but to those efforts to qual that controversy seem to not be working. all right, thank you very much from the white house. kimberly help it. so bruce, fine is a former us associate deputy attorney general joins us live now from washington. so justice of all men had already appointed a special council to look into the former president, donald trump's handling of the and storage of classified documents in his mar lago . hm. that's obviously still going on. what you make of the timing of robert has

appointment. well, the attorney general explained it rather in an actual way saying the incumbent, special counsel said he was going to be leaving for private practice at a time that was going to precede, expected time, needed to complete the investigation. so he couldn't stay on. it wasn't like he had exonerated mr. biden or actually had begun to do much of anything. so i think that is really much ado about nothing. i think the more serious question is, the 6 years that these documents were in mister biden's, homer garage, that's a long time. and moreover, there needs to be some context here. there was former cia director john deutsch, former national security adviser, sandy berger with both prosecutors in convicted under

a federal criminal prohibition against the unauthorized removal and retention of classified information. so this issue is not a novel. former ca, director david betray us, was also found guilty of doing the same when he shared some classified information with his mistress. now, with regard to mr. biden himself, that was very important here, is you'll notice that mary garland, the attorney general, said that the special counsels got to comply with the policies of the department of justice. well, there is one policy which has been around for a long time when i was there, but i wasn't, it didn't support it that says you cannot indict or prosecute an incumbent president. and in fact, when mr. trump was being investigated by mister mall, or he didn't answer questions that were raised by him. he said he would only respond to things that he did before he was president,

or they didn't push it. they didn't subpoena him. if we really want to restore, try in the system, i would hope that mister buying would waive all of these privileges. he would waive the department of justice policy, which is not enshrined in the constitution and says, i'm an open book. you can subpoena me, and this is why it's important. one element of the crime of unauthorized a disc, unauthorized receipt and retention, is whether the classified information was obtained with an intent, you know, to keep it outside. and how difficult is it to establish that particular intent in an investigation? you know, obviously you will have his team advising him and providing legal advice, but this goes back to his time as vice president. so perhaps there will be issues with being able to recollect the details of how and why classified documents that

he acquired during his time is vice president ended up in his office and his home in delaware. it's a wonderful question, and you're correct that 11 least, circumstantial evidence that works in favor of a wrongful intent is that they were there for 6 years. that's a long time. it wasn't ok. got them. oh, i discovered it any in 2 weeks or 3 weeks wires, it's 6 years, but maybe there's an n as an explanation. but what you've underscored is the imperative of being able to put mr. bitin under oath. cross examine. yeah. how do you get into somebody's intent? did cabins all the time and murder cases most criminal issue cases revolve around a, getting the intent of the accused or the suspect? now there is a 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination that mister biden could plead if he wanted to. but he could waive that privilege as well. i know that it wasn't

exactly the same, but i was serving on the joint congressional committee uncovered arm sales to iran, and president ronald reagan waived all privileges at that time because he wanted to be open. but that's a critical point that the american people in the audience needs to understand. if you want this really to end in a way that promotes competence, waive all the privileges that have been there in the past and exist now. they're going to encumbered the ability to know what present biden did and why in the mode it's, it's very interesting. whitehouse is made a point of saying that biden will cooperate with the investigation. but the extent, but whether or not that will go to the extent of waving presidential privileges, of course we will, we'll see later. thank you very much, bruce. fine, appreciate it. thank you. ah, there conflicting reports of who has control of the east and ukrainian town of

solid down when fighting remains intense. in crane says its forces is still holding on and what seen as a key strategic battle, russian mercenary wagner group is leading the offensive and says it sees the town. but the cannon is wanting against declaring what it called a premier church victory. according to daniel governor, more than 100 russian troops have been killed in the battle and the last day grains debbie, the fence ministers as russia is sending more soldiers. evening rush, we're fighting is fierce in the solid, our direction the back march. despite the difficult situation, ukrainian soldiers a desperately fighting rusher is trying to break through our defense lines without any luck to capture sola dahl and the enemy has high losses. the area outside the city is covered with the bodies of potions troops. the russians are moving over their own corpses. solander only has a population of around 10000,

but it's location makes it a key strategic target. it's just 12 kilometers from the regional capital back much which russia has been trying to take for several months. solid also has deep salt mines that could be used to safely house troops and equipment for an advance. antivirus child stratford has been reporting he has worn out from that just outside backlit were about 5 kilometers outside of bar, moot, solid doors around 10 kilometers. in that direction, i'm not sure whether you're going to be able to pick this audio up, but there's a lot of heavy showing going on all around this area. we firm in the last few minutes as well heard heavy machine gun 4 was a checkpoint, very close to us as well. we will prevent you from going any further towards bach motor. that checkpoint seems as if there are only allowing the military through i was here 2 and a half, 3 months ago. and it's fair to say that the situation has dramatically changed since day. and i mean, we used to go down this road and into buck moved,

then it is a lot louder, a lot more heavy shelling than then. we've actually been speaking to soldiers this morning who beat inside buck mood and asking them about the situation in both moot and solid. they said to us that russian forces were in the center of solely door. they said that they were in control of that salt mine. they described russian tanks in the center of solid r as well. they said that they were concerns for behavioral studies. there. there are concerns among the ukrainian forces about possible escape routes for the ukrainian forces inside solid. all he said they were trying to do was protect a western root out of the town. we've been speaking to some of the soldiers behind his head this in this vehicle. these people have been getting ready to evacuate soldiers out of moods. they say that there is still a lot of civilians inside, but we also how many civilians they were inside solid. all he estimated around

$500.00 civilians still inside sorted as the fighting goes on. now moving on in 2022 as the joint 5th, horses years since records began more than a 140 years ago. that's according to the global climate change report issued by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and nasa. the average global temperature was at 14.76 degrees celsius, more than a degree higher than pre industrial times, as it has been for the last 9 years. the general trend remains inexorably upwards with the top 28 hottest years on record, all coming from 1988 onwards and 28 nations including china, the united kingdom, spain, france, germany and new zealand had their hottest years ever recorded. the antarctic sea ice cover was the 2nd lowest ever or february, june, july and august had the lowest monthly levels ever recorded. 2022 is

another top 10 year i'd it rang roughly joint 5th, a 2015 the woman years were 20162020. which were joint 1st and then 20192017. we're quite, we'll another, you know, top 10 year i cementing that long term trend that we've been seeing in temperatures since suddenly since the seventy's and, you know, since the late 19th century, it's the 8th year in a row. that's more than one degrees celsius. above the late 19th century and so that's, that's getting very close to that 1.5. so i kind of guideline that so the came out of the paris accord or california is facing more rain and flooding as another atmospheric river weather system. that's how it's referred to as that sweeping across the last state. 18 people are known to have died tens of thousands

of enforced from their homes in a barge of storms over the past 2 weeks. search is continuing for a 5 year old boy who is swept away by flood waters just 3 days ago. earlier this week to renshaw, downpours cause flash flooding, topple trees, and closed key highways. at least $54000.00 homes and businesses are still without power. in watching algebra lie from london much more still ahead on the program, raced, evaluate a remote indian town rumbling beneath it's residence fields and in germany, please continue to live climate protected hold up in an abandoned village for the last 2 years. ah. with as the grounds become southern once

again in england, rain this weekend is not going to be welcomed. you see is a massive cloud already, but in the immediate future, much as i was bringing the right on to was denmark is causing some melton. the snow's already on the ground in southern parts of norway and sweden. as you can see, the wind is fairly strong and quite coated. feels early single figures of the picture on friday in the north, down towards a iberia. this rain just touching the north of spain and just trying to catch the edge of portugal. but again, we got dave reasonable sunshine attempts in the teens. even 20, if you're lucky in the south coast. in contrast, what's happening in good part turkey, for example, we've had something like a half amongst with the right in 2 days and on talia. the forecasts that rain spread through cyprus, into lebanon. there be snow for the lebanese mountains and brain having the coast of egypt as well, leaving much of turkey dry and in the sunshine, which is actually the case for good part of mainland europe. but it's snow may be on the back of that frontal system, but this is the right on its way through it. it goes through the u. k. that in sink

down to france will be more flooding as a result of this as well. it north africa, things are largely dry pot for a few shouts round the coast and west. here the hamilton is blowing steadily as it should do. ah, there are people in the world want all forms of verification. they just go away. so we need people fighting against that. we are trying to see if it's a fake video, maybe in syria, but in a different time. they read a great deal to find out the trade in very complex situations that include major label players will be targeted by cyber attacks from russia. they're all dangerous in doing this kind of belling cat truth in a post truth world. on al jazeera lou

ah ah, welcome back. look at the main stories are following now. the u. s. attorney general is appointed a special council to investigate president joe biden's handling of government documents. 2 sets of papers have been found one, a biden's, delaware, the other as a washington office. ukraine is saying its troops are holding out despite heavy fighting around the salt mining town of solid dar, in eastern ukraine, russian ultra nauseous, wagner group types of captured the region. but moscow is not officially proclaiming victory. and you are assigned to say that last year was the wells joint, 5th warmest on record in the last 9 years with the warmest since pre industrial times ex. but say the late to stay to put the power agreement goal to limit global warming to one and a half degrees celsius in serious jeopardy. india has started demolishing

unsafe buildings in the himalayan town of josh. him off. residents have been evacuated off to cracks, appeared in hundreds of buildings being blamed on non stop construction in the area and a changing environment. of any metal reports now from the city in northern india, cracked and damaged this home. enjo she month has become unlivable. as he surveys the damage regime to rely chance as he 1st spotted cracks in 2021 but. but he says, authorities ignored him. these became wider and destroyed his home in america. my holy v are living in fear people that we don't know what the future holds for us, isn't it? we haven't eaten properly for these. the children are missing school up. our daily routines have been destructive. we go with the are struggling and don't know how to handle the situation. similar damage can be seen across this more himalayan town. in northern india roads have fish, as many homes are falling apart,

nearly half the town has been effected. josi might, is a gateway to hindu and seek religious sites. it's also an important military base near the chinese border. authorities are blaming bad janet systems and all of a population for thinking this land. brooklyn young authorities have moved hundreds of people to temporary shelters. families are sharing one room and have brought a 6 advisory over. the robert family says this meant all their savings to build their home. they're anxious about their future if timely to today, but you only don't when i'm there shivering in the school. it's tough for the children. we have to warm milk for them. it's becoming difficult to look after them . jeopardy authorities are giving us food, so at least that is taken care of. but what about our future? what will we do? or use to give experts a they've been wanting authorities about the pace of development in the area for decades. they're blaming corruption and lack of leadership for the disaster. this

is a total failure of governance. no government has tackled his history, please. they didn't listen to scientific advice. it's not just rossi mafia. there's several other towns in similar locations that could face similar disasters. authorities are marking high risk areas and homes. they're also offering $1800.00 as compensation. several people are leaving town before the situation gets worse. many see they will need more money from the government, so they can relocate and start building their lives. bother me with the al jazeera, georgia mud, northern india. thousands of people have taken bar in the rare protest in the somali capital against the arm group our ship bob government organized rally was one of the largest public gatherings in mogadishu. in the last decade. present. how sunshine, ha ha, mood declared war on the group. when he came to power last year, i sure bob is affiliated to al qaeda, has been fighting somali as government for more than 15 years. our palestinian

health ministry says israeli forces of killed a palestinian man in the occupied west bank. 41 year old samir. aslan was shot in the columbia county near ramallah during an early morning raid on thursday, a party, an official se salon was trying to defend his son during an arrest, as long as the 3rd palestinian to be killed in the occupied west bank in the past 24 hours shall anchors for president has been ordered to pay damages for failing to prevent the 2019 easter sunday bomb attacks. the supreme court found that my trip policy, racine had received credible intelligence that an attack was imminent, and he should have acted to prevent it now has to pay $270000.00 to the victims families. 269 people were killed when an ice, a linked group formed churches and hotels in colombo. was the country's worst terror attack since the end of the civil war. michelle fernandez has more from colombo. this ruling by the supreme court. the 7th judge been, sir,

the billing you see behind me o was in response to 12 separate fundamental rights petitions filed by a cross section of people. this was the bar association, lawyers of families, of victims who had died in those horrible attacks in 2019. the catholic church, all of them had basically sought to look for a some form of answers. accountability of someone who should essentially uh, you know, pick the price of blame or, or take responsibility for those 269 lives right . well, moving on in chinese authorities are wanting people not to travel to visit elderly relatives during the lunar new year. holiday is cove. it spread rapidly through cities and inter regional areas. china reopened its borders on sunday for the 1st time since march 2020 linear new year, a cause later this month and was supposed to be a returned to festivities. after years of restrictions on wednesday,

china stopped issuing short term visas to travelers from south korea and japan sapping up a diplomatic tit for tat. after both of those countries imposed testing requirements on that visitors from china, brazil's new president who is unnaturally to silver, says he plans to have his government's policies ready within the next 100 days. to get the country running at what he calls normal speed again comes after 4 comes 4 days. after supporters of his predecessor jar balsa narrow storm the seat of government and the capital, brazilian luna told reporters that what happened was a huge warning and fanatic. both scenarios, supporters are still very dangerous. thousands of nurses in new york city of ended their strike. annabelle returned to work after reaching agreements on approved staffing and compensation. will in $7000.00 nurses at 2 privately own non profit hospitals were on a walk out of a pay and conditions, hospitals. and this is even severely understaffed. since the coven pandemic,

nurses had to work long overtime hours and were often forced to skip meals and bathroom breaks. german police continued to decline activists from the village of lutes, or of believe people have been camped there for the past 2 years, protesting over the decision to demolish the village to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. believe say $200.00 activist la voluntarily on wednesday, but there are still around $300.00 at the site. protest have been throwing stones and fireworks at the police sat larson has more from let's or a here police. this really rapidly demolishing the camp that the climate activists have built in the last 2 years. they basically have built all these wooden structures, wooden hub. and so you can see climate activists up there. they're still waiting for police to reach them to have put themselves is very high and complicated position to make it harder for police to get to them. but very rapidly. also,

these cranes have been brought in by police. they have been hearing down all over this whole side, a cell about a 3 houses left that some have been demolished already here. this house is now also been the modest by police a few 100. maybe it's very unclear to say how many are still here, but they're holding up as well in the houses that remained from this little village . it was a village that around a 100 people many and most of the rest and all the residents. i have to say have left a while ago because the company w e had basically compensated them. they were long legal battles, but they lost all these legal battles. but a 1000 climate activists had moved in here for the last 2 years to have the base here they had the community here. so we've been speaking to them all day and they're in a very sad condition right now because their whole community is be basically been

torn down. and this is not, of course, the main problem. the main problem is that the mind that they were protesting against which is right behind us is going to be expanded very soon now. oh, there have been more flight cancellations and delays. of course, the united states, as the system recovers from a technical glitch, a co op. this file has been blamed for an outage on the federal aviation administration is computer system where so every flight grounded across the country for hours on wednesday. technical failure prevented apple. it's from filing updated safety note says most major u. s. airlines say they expect operations to return to normal throughout thursday. one, all those stories right here al jazeera dot com, also some comments and analysis pieces that take you behind the headlines which will bring you in just a just a couple of seconds. ah.